Protest potpourri in D.C.
At the antiwar protest in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 24, demonstrators made their point in different ways. A woman originally from Russia who wore a Soviet scarf and had proletariat written on her arm, participated in the Black Bloc, a group of anarchists who tipped newspaper boxes and garbage cans and dumpsters into the street to snarl traffic; two topless women kissing were among a group of 20 or 30 similarly partially unclad peace activists who embraced under banners reading Breasts not Bombs and War Is Indecent. A woman named Hannah, a member of Food not Bombs  a group that provides free food to protesters  in Alexandria, Va., lay on the Mall in a mock Arlington Cemetery; the 100 or so white crosses were left blank and people were encouraged to write on them whatever they felt had died under the Bush administration. Demonstrators portrayed the Abu Ghraib prison torture victims in front of the White House.